Chess
Is Vietnam's Chess 'Gold' Real Gold? The Question Nobody Is AskingI first heard about Vietnam's 'historic chess gold' at a tea stall in Purana...
A Big Club-Chess Crown, A Small Ledger: The European Club Cup Headline and a Magazine's AdvertisementHook In November 2026, in a tea stall in Purana Paltan, a club secretary...
The Gap in Chess Reporting: Where the Headline Sings Victory, the Body Sells an OpeningI have two papers in front of me. One is the kind of headline that brings tea...
The Headline Says One Thing, the Page Says Another: Timur Turlov, FIDE, and the Audit of a Chess StoryOn Tuesday at 9:30 in the morning a headline arrived in my inbox: "FIDE...
The Elephant Gambit's Marketing Illusion: A 60-Minute 'Surprise' Against a 40-Year Infrastructure GapPicture a position. An English coach in a video shows 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d5!? —...
From Benko Gambit to Fritz 20: The Trail of a Contradictory Title in the Chess WorldJuly 2026. At the Chennai Olympiad I stayed locked on one board for eleven da...
9...a5: A Marketed Antidote to the Bayonet Attack, and the Evidence That Is Not ThereSummer 2026, Moscow. On the set-piece desk I logged all 64 matches, counted 1...
Kavutskiy's New Courses and the Unfinished Pages of Bangladesh's Chess Notebook27...Kh8. Last month, sitting in the corner of a small academy in Mymensingh,...
Board One in Samarkand: An Eleven-Year-Old's 2504 and the Empty Promise of 3.Bc4 Against the SicilianThe Olympiad hall in Samarkand. Seventh round of the team Swiss, clocks press...
Echo of the Steel Cupboard: Forty Squares, No Crowd, and the Seventeen-Year Silence in Bangladeshi ChessOn the second floor of the federation building in Purana Paltan there is a...
Samarkand's 3.5–0.5: Where India's Depth Is Covering for Its Top BoardsFour of India's sixteen individual wins came from its top two boards. That is...
Samarkand's 28.5: India Keeps the Gaprindashvili Cup, and What the Headline HidesTwo Indian teams sat at two tables in the Samarkand hall for the final round....